Loot Crate‘s theme for September is ROBOTIC. Loot Crate is the original nerd subscription box for geeks & gamers. Every month you’ll get awesome, mostly exclusive geeky pop culture items curated around a theme for $21.99 per month, shipped.

Along with the model a full little booklet detailed everything about R2. My 6 year old already stole this, but we are all excited to read it!

The balsa wood pieces and the instructions.

It took my husband a long time to build, but I’m just thankful it wasn’t the metal version. I can’t deal with those.

Tada!

Very intricate!

The box had some ideas to make it your own. If my kids wouldn’t flip out I’d do Deadpool r2d2.

ALIENS “Queen Takes Bishop” Mini Figure: The first in a new collab between Loot Crate & Phat Mojo. Apparently they produce a lot of blind bag items.

The figure comes disassembled.

And Queen takes Bishop! At least he can be reassembled (he’s an android, you know).

The figure is surprisingly detailed for its size – it’s only about 3″ tall.

It’s actually shockingly small, and somewhat flimsy. I thought quite frankly it was a disappointment, and I suggest that subscribers that feel the same way fill out the Looter Survey this month. My 6 year old loved it on the other hand, and he’ll probably score the glow in the dark shirt too.

Once again, the R2D2 build and the pin were my favorite items this month. And really the best thing about the build, for me anyways, is the book! The book is a complete 32 pages about R droids and R2D2 with all sorts of specs and factoids. This has to be one of my least favorite boxes in a while. That being said, nothing went unclaimed in our house either. It just seemed more comparable to boxes from two years ago than a box 2 months ago. One big plus – given our Lootpocalypse over the last week, I’d say that shipping times are improving – we even got Loot Wear subs in during the same month!

Brandy is the Editor of Hello Subscription and cannot resist a good subscription box. Favorite subscriptions include FabFitFun, Stitch Fix, and anything from Loot Crate. She shares 4 kids and 2 miniature schnauzers with her husband.